Year 11 support thread - keep on keeping on!

most of dd's friends have RE this afternoon (she's very grateful she doesn't!), good luck to her Dancergirl :)

DD's not talking about results beyond no 9s for English (crazy prediction imo), hopefully a 6 for maths & probably a B for French. Everything else was predicted A/A ... time will tell. She's having a nap now after a bit of work this morning (she seems unbothered by forgetting all her physics). I'd be amazed if she gets comes out with a crop of A/A. She needs Bs for 6th form.

Difficult to predict really as DS has only worked much harder since the beginning of 2017. As and Bs predicted (but more Bs than As) but I reckon the tilt could be to more As given the work he's putting in. C for Spanish though, I reckon. Who can tell?

Anyone else got 2nd RS paper this afternoon?

It's dd's last one, hooray! Good luck to everyone for the last few exams.

How are all these schools delivering such precise predicted grades? Dd's school is very vague. They say it depends on how hard they work and how they perform on the day. Very difficult to predict sometimes.

I think for the Unis he's aiming for (RG) he should be doing A LOT better. I know a lot will depend on A'levels, BUT as it becomes more competitive, they look at GCSEs as well don't they? I think Imperial, UCL etc are obviously out of the question or I am being too pessimistic

What does he need, 'tisglorious?

As the exams slowly draw to end, can i be nosy and ask what kind of results are you expecting? I am sort of expecting 3A's and 5B's and 1C. I was hoping for much better but DS seems glass half full and revision was lack lustre. I just wondered how bad this is really?

keepondreaming - snap, DS is currently at the barbers because it is extremely important to get the hair cut before the post-exam Nandos trip tomorrow! Never mind the physics revision
Ahhhhhh!!

I wouldn't worry as different schools will have approached subjects in different ways.

little dd has never heard of Booth and Rowntree, they've never learnt it! She really needs an A in History, she and I are both hoping if it's just that one question she's messed up, hopefully she'll have done well enough in everything else.

Yes, tried that! Doesn't help that the grandparents offered a cash incentive before everything started. Apparently, whatever the results are, they will be my fault, so I should get the cash anyway! Oh, and it's OK because 'no-one is revising anyway'.

Payment?? Snort. Tell him satisfaction at a job well done is its own reward. Throw in the one about how children in many parts of the world would give their eye teeth for an opportunity at education. Those always go down well.

Cromwell - your experience seems exactly like mine. I can't do right for doing wrong at the moment, but son did explain yesterday what he felt the 'payment' should be for the different grades come August. £100 for an A, apparently. I put him straight on that one!

History OCR 'went well' yesterday. Last push today for final exam (DT) tomorrow afternoon. At 4pm, it's over! Bar a session in the art room on Saturday morning to hang work for marking.

Don't think Thing1 is really working at this stage. Doesn't care about the subject, and can't be bothered to prepare at this point, even though most of the marks awarded are based on work done in advance. Sigh. We're just grumpy with each other now. I'm fed up with dancing attendance, he's fed up with me asking anything at all about exams/work, but perfectly happy to soak up the special treatment lavished upon The Princely Exam Candidate. Teenager behaves in slightly self-centred and uncommunicative manner with doting but exasperated parent: who'd have thought it, eh?

Anyway, husband also finishes massive, all-consuming project at work today, so weekend will be nice. And I"m planning a good evening out (exhibition and dinner) en famille next week. Can't wait to do the book return and help clear out the exam/revision detritus. Decorators start in the house a week on Monday, and Thing1 can get going on the upgrade to his bedroom and games room that we've been promising. There is life beyond GCSEs!

Good luck to everyone in remaining exams and enjoy a great summer afterwards!

Dancergirl ds did that last question about the reason why public health reform took so long because people were the blaming poor & how far do sources support this statement.

I asked him about the answer and he said that Florence Nightingale is not so relevant but that talking about the Public health acts is good. Plus things like Booth, Rowntree and the Liberals would get you marks.

Been watching this to soothe my frazzled nerves and know I am not alone! LIZS - good to hear there is a fellow Further Maths sufferer out there. DS has done little revision for it and I am worried it will be a huge shock to him today. He is always very uncommunicative after the exams - one word answers as to how they went - so if you get more insight from your daughter about what the paper was like, please share!

Further maths today, last night she realised she didn't get something and was getting frustrated. Fingers crossed it doesn't come up.

Mad, hope things settle down for your DD

Possum, I can't believe they did that without any warning. They could have at least offered DD from call from student reception for a lift or to let you know what's happened.

No exams today. Physics tomorrow, then biology, chemistry and physics again next week.

madhair your poor dd Why are girls so mean??

Edexcel History yesterday for dd - Russia and History of Medicine. All went well except the 15 mark essay question on medicine. It was about changes in public health between 1845 - 1900. Dd managed to get something in about the Public Health Acts (but she thinks she might have mixed up the dates) and talked about Florence Nightingale and changes to nursing. But she's worried that's not what they are looking for, is it really to do with public health?? Any knowledgable Historians around?

No exams today, just a full school.say of compulsory science revision. Then biology and physics tomorrow and a chemistry and last physics next week. Our temporary teenager finishes tomorrow but has to come in next week to resut failed modules of ECDL. Am just grateful DD for that out of the way last year.

History not so good for us unfortunately, he revised the least for this paper, other 2 went well. Chemistry was good.
Mad hair & possum that's awful for both your Dds. I can't believe the school didn't inform, we had several notifications here.
Philosophy today, very little revision done, physics tomo then its all done & only the results to wait for.
Good luck everybody 🍀

Mad I thought drama like that doesn't happen at this age anymore. I hope your dd is ok.

Possum that's outrageous. So they're sorry?! If something bad would have happened to your dd (thank God it didn't) they would have been responsible for it!

Sprog do you want to swap kids? Just for one day. DS is a closed book, I even tried to joke about Daniel and his 420 cakes in yesterday's maths exam (twitter was going on about weed reference) and he looked at me like I was from another planet. (

DD has managed to "squeeze in" a hair appointment between physics revision tomorrow. Top of her to "to do" list I guess